Eliodoro Ager

Eliodoro Ager was a Spanish guard captain in Rome during the Italian Wars. In 1498, after the Spanish liberated the city from France, Ager was ordered to receive the identification of every person entering the Apostolic Palace, and he got into a heated situation with Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere and his colleagues after he demanded their identification. The situation was defused only when Francesc Gacet let them in, and when Della Rovere said that the "Spanish invaders" should be forced out of Rome, Gacet responded that it would make it easier for the French to invade if the Spanish withdrew.